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Most of you are probably asking, “What the hell is priapism?” Don’t feel too bad if you’re one of those people. There was once a time when I didn’t know what it was either. What first brought priapism to my attention was a commercial. You probably see these commercials at least once a day and never realize what you’re missing. Now, they bury the word priapism down in the fine print.Continue reading →

I know what some of you are thinking. This is called the Stuph Blog. Why make the title “things” that are pissing me off, instead of “stuph” that is pissing me off? The answer: Stuph is cool. When something is cool, it doesn’t piss you off. Anyways, here’s some things that are pissing me off.

1. Insight – Anyone that has Insight for cable has seen those commercials that say you need one of those mini boxes for any TV not connected to the main box. We had cable running to the TV in our bedroom, so we needed to get one of these boxes because 95% of the channels weren’t coming in anymore. We ordered one, they sent it, and I went to hook it up. It wouldn’t power on. I moved it to a few different outlets and still couldn’t get any power to it, so we took it back. When I got the new one home, it worked and I hooked it up. Now we have all the channels that weren’t coming in before, which would normally be a good thing. Unfortunately, ever since I hooked the mini box up, the volume has been messing up. It’s loud on some channels, low on others. Plus the volume will start fluctuating on any channel if you stay on it for more than a few minutes. Sometimes the commercials will be much louder than the shows, sometimes it’s the other way around. Either way, it’s annoying as hell, and it’s really starting to piss me off.

2. Local commercials – I know that local businesses don’t have the kind of money that the national companies do to hire advertising agencies, but most of the commercials that they’re making could be considered torture. I have one little piece of advice for these companies: Stop trying to be funny or cute. Just say what your company does and get it over with. There’s one that’s for a lawyer’s office where he’s pretending to be a boxer and he’s supposedly fighting the big, bad insurance company. The insurance company man sniffs his armpits and apparently grosses himself out. Really? That joke might work on a preschooler, but to the people you’re trying to sell yourself to, it makes you look idiotic.

3. UK fans – Not all of them, but quite a few of them. While out Christmas shopping, I ran into some of them. I was wearing Ohio State stuph, and they didn’t like that. I guess they think that just because I live in Kentucky, I should automatically be a UK fan. Let me tell you a secret, UK fans: I don’t give a @#$% about college basketball. I like college football. If I was going to start caring about college basketball, I still wouldn’t root for UK. I’ve been down to Lexington, and that town sucks more than any town has ever sucked before. To those UK fans that are offended that I live in the state and don’t root for the team, you can take your basketball team, shove it sideways, and leave me the heck alone.